The definition of sex is changing. But what do our new attitudes tell us about the value we place on intimacy?
because nobody was getting pregnant from hands or tongues. This understanding of intimacy and sex followed us into the modern day, observable even in the way we refer to forms of intimacy, like digital or oral stimulation, as “foreplay”.
“A goal-oriented view of sex like this tends to favour penis-oriented pleasure, and not involve vulva-owners,” says Chantelle Otten, Bumble’s resident sexologist and author of. It also tends to erase queer folk, centring penis-in-vagina shenanigans as the only kind of sex that “counts”.So, what’s the alternative? Well, it might look like treating all sorts of intimate activity as equally valuable.
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